The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out.
The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero -

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

- Albert Schweitzer -

One is not idle because one is absorbed.
There is both visible and invisible labor.
To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do.
The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act.
The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

- Victor Hugo -

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.
If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

- Charlie Chaplin -

Everything has a moral, if only you can find it.

- Lewis Carrol -